The deadline for proposals for the new EU R&D framework program for 2007 to 2013 (FP7) is 8 May 2007.
The deadline for proposals for the new EU R&D framework program for 2007 to 2013 (FP7) is 8 May 2007. ICT for Health (eHealth) is heavily involved in this new call for proposals, with the following priorities: personal health systems for monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics, risk assessment and patient safety, and virtual physiological human. You will find more information on FP7 on the following website: cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html. More specific information about information society technologies is available on cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/.
The EU R&D program is open for international collaboration. There are restrictions, however, on the possibilities to get EU funding for groups from industrialized countries such as Japan.
For more details, see the following websites:
cordis.europa.eu/ist/international/home.htmlwww.euroasia-it.org.
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